The Sun. — London, England, 1809-10-17 00:00:00

Spaniards, two howitzers, and eight fell-pieces, to proteel Leon against Soult's army, six or seven times more numerous than his own, than for Sir John I\loorc, with ,(25,000 British, to grated Benevente or Astorga against two or three times his numbers. Romana, deprived of every resource but his own cour , ge, " has procrastinated and gained time," and defended himself in mountaio-passes, and played the game of Spain." ,How the game of England was played remains to be seen. " The appearance, says Mr. Moore, of this (the Spanish) army was extremely melancholy : it was ill-armed, wretchedly clothed, and-very sickly. But no reproach ought to be thrown upon these troops for the little resistance they made : their na tive courage is undoubted; and they endured the most cruel privation's with the utmost patience. But their deplorable, almost famished condition, and the total want of officers, would have disheartened the bravest people. Astorga was one of the depots which had been formed for warlike stores, .iwith the view of offensive operations in conjunation. with the Soaoish amnies ; which Rave an opportunityfOf sup plying the Marquis's troops with muskets, and as much ammunition as they could carry off. The rest was necessarily •destroyed. The corps under Sir D. Baird had brought their camp-equipage from Corunna to Astorga, and had deposited it there. But this was no country for such con veniencies : there were no means of removing it, and the whole was ordered to be consumed. Many Officers had brOught along with them a considerable quantity of baggage, and the oVerloaded mules fell behind. But the General would not suffer a soldier to be detained by the bag gage; and gave stria orders, that every horse or mule that could not ,keep up with the columns, should be abandoned.". MAILS. Af,it I If zp—s Dublin, 5 Waterford. D.uE—l.Gotteuburgh, 1 LiSi)oll, i Cadiz, t Dublin,. i Waterford. PRICE OF 'E'OCIi.S THIS DAY AT TWitI 4 VIL O'CLOCK. Console THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICIRE EALIUDA AUDEAT ? L 0 ND 0 N, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 180 g. We are happy to have it in our power to state, in answer to the desponding prediCtions of sore of the Qt position Writers, that the surplus of the Con lidated Fund for the quarter ending ioth October, ti , .12, is larger than it has ever been since the esta bliihmentot that Fund. The following is an abstraa of the account as com pared with that of the corresponding quarter of la s year : Ito THE QUARTER ENDED Oa. to, 4808. Ott. 1c), 1839. Income £9,06x,117 k 9,845,300 Charge - 6,347,5 8 7 6,700,001, Surplus £2,714.53' C3, 1 45,3c ,0 Tl,e War Taxes have also been unusually produc tive. The produce in the last quarter was 6,685,t5271 which exceeds by something more than a quarter of a million the corresponding quarter in 180 S. Thera has also been a very ,considerable increase in, the Property Tax, the receipt for the last quarter ex ceeds that of the corresponding quarter of the last 'year by near 500,0001. Yesterby morning his MAJESTY, Piincesses AU GUSTA and SOPHIA, accompanied by Lady CHAN LEY, General -FITZROY, and Colonel TAYLOR, rode on horkback in Windsor Park. His MAJESTY is expeeted in town to-morrow, to bold a _ Prit ate Levee and Privy Council, at the Queen's Palace. Yesterday her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES, accompanied by Lady CHARLOTTE LIND SA I', tank an airing from Blackheath to Kensington Palace, where her Royal Highness inspeEted the im provements and alterations carrying on at her apart ments, and in the evening returned to. her house at Blackheath, and entertained a sele& party to dinner. The two sons of his Highness the Duke of BRUNSWICK GELS, accompanied by two officers, atrived to town on Saturday. They landed'on Fri day at Harwich. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Bautiswictc sent a carriage with a set of horses tile same evening, to wait their arrival at Rumford, and escort them to Blackheath, where they arrived early on Saturday morning, and were soon after pined by his Highness their father. The interview was truly affecting, and in the evening his Highness conducked them to town, to his house in Clarges stieet, Piccadilly. In consequence of the publication of Mr. CAN- NiNG ' S Statement, in teply to Lord CASTLEREAGH'S charge, Lord CAMDEN, it is said, intends 10 pub-. • li.h some explanation with resped to that part of th e s tatement in which his name is implicated. • The following paragraph is given as authentic PERCEVAL wrote a letter to her Royal Highness the Princess of WALL'S, formally to announce his ar poinhilent as First Lord of the Treasury. He condoled with her Royal Highness on the loss of Mr. CANNING'S splendid abilities to the Administra tion ; but took occasion to assure her that it was hot his fault, .as he had offered to agree to the ar rangement that Mr. CANNING might suggest, by which a third pe:s6n might have been placed at the bead of the Treasury ; and he trusted that her Royal Highhess . would see in this a satisfatiory proof that it; was not from selfish considerations that he had accepted of this situation. Her Royal Highness, in answer to this letter, expressed her thanks for the communication, and the extreme regret at the resignation of Mr. CANNING. Shecoricludes, bx coMplimenting Mr. PCaCEVAL on his courage inun del-taking so arduous a task as the AdminiStration public affalfs , , • in a moment of such . uvpreb2dentvd • ditiickthy. • .• . • • M. CHAiMPJGAY's LETTER. We copy the following from a Morning Paper:— " We are said to have declared France in a state of blockade before the Berlin Decree, which first ut tered that denunciation against us. They might - as well have said that we declared France in the moon before the Berlin Decree.. Our preceding Order in Council only forbade that coasting neutral trade during the War, which France would not suffer to be carried on during the Peace, and then was issued the Decree in question, declaring that no vessel that had touched in England should be admitted into France. Our subsequent Orders were merely coon tera6tive of (his." 'I iie writer of this paragraph appears to unto have an indistin& recolleaion of the fads. What is meant by our preceding Order in Council, (prior to the Berlin Decree,) which forbade the neutral coast ing 'trade iiot'allowed by France in time of peace ? If by this is intended, generally, the rule of the war ef 1756, that rule was not applied by us preViously to the Berlin Decree, to the Coasting Trade. .If the Order of the 7th of January, 1807, is referred to, that was consequent to the Berlin Decree. , In the Berlin Decree, NAPOLEON (agreeing in this respel with the Americans, as much as be differs from them in respeta of " free ships,—free goods,") refers to the system of blockading , extensive coasts , as a departure from the acknowledged laws, of Mari time War. He has uniformly brought this forward as.a charge against Great ,Britain. It is to this system, we suppose, that CHAMPAGNY'S Letter refers; and the " Blockade of France," to Which he direaly al ludes, is the notification made to all Neutral Powers by Mr. Fox, when Secretary of State, on the 16th of May, 1806, declaring his Majesty's intention of plac ing all the coast of France and Holland, from.the Elbe to Bleb, inclusive, in a state of strut and rigorous blockader not forbidding merely the Coasting Trade, but all intercourse whatever. This prohibition we were enabled to carry into . effect, and certainly did render the access to these Coasts " manifestly dangerous." It is not, therefore, from any desire of obje&ing to this measure of the GRENVILLE Administration, that we bring it forward, but merely as an illustra tion of a subjea which has been misunderstood.— It was the notification of Blockade, nearest in point of time to the Berlin Decree . ,, and more extensive in its operation than. any of those which had pre- ceded it. We have only to add, that to chara&erize the Berlin Decree, as simply declaring " that no vessel which had touched in England, should be admitted into France," is to narrow its operation more than either its tenor, or the pradice under it will justify. It also declared England in a state of blockade, and its operation, previously to our Orders of November, was certainly extended ,heyond the ports of. France. • . . Yesterday arrived a Mail from Flushing and Let ters from Walcheren to Saturday last. The fol lowing Extra& supplies come satisfactory informa tton : " FLusnING, OCT. 12.-We shill remain here all - the winter. " We have not yet heard who is to he our head in the Island, but some say Sir JOHN HOPE, and others assert that either General FINCH or SirESTRE COOTS is to be appointed Governor. "" The trade here is tolerably good; but the people with whom we traffic are not without their_ fears for the consequences of the intercourse. There :are plenty of goods in the Island, which sell, for the most part, at advantageous prices. „,, " Very little transpires of any proceedings on the Danube, but we have heard people go so far as to say, that they have not the least doubt that the treaty of peace has ,been already signed, sealed, and ratified. Perhaps this is only a conje&ure of their own, without , any.specific foundation . for it.— The last letters I have heard spoken of, from Vi enna, are of the 27th of September, and they say nothing, but that people an hundred miles off know as much of the intentions of the Negociators as the inhabitants of the capital. I dare say all means are employed to keep their proceedings as secret. as possible. " The following,ships are here under Admiral °TWAY. The Irnperieuse, Ccesar, Audacious, Clyde, Blake, Hero, Theseus, Marlborough, Revenge, Dee mark, Victorious, Aboukir, Impetueur, and some others, besides frigates and a great. many gun-boats, &c. under Commodore OWEN." EXTRACT OF' A LETTER, DATED DIIDDLEBURGII, OCTOBER 13, 1309. The sick in the hospitals are recovering be yond measure. Were it not for the number of con valescents in them of the old disease, our hospitals, upon an average, would not be more ,crowded than those of England, I mean at the moment of writ ing. The old Government of 1795 is about to be restored, and General FINCH, it ,is said, will be our Commandant." The following Proclamation has appeared in the Royal Courant of Amsterdam, " The Commander of the distri& of the Province of Zealand, informs such persons whom it may concern, that all his Majesty's subje6.ls who so far forget their du4y as to maintain any intercourse with the enctny in Walcheren, by purchasing any goods put up to sale by them, either directly or indirealy, shall be considered not only as criminals, but fur , ther be incapable of holding any office under his Ma jesty. Those who have been compelled to quit Walcheren, and have sustained any loss of property thereby, may not come to any terms with the,en ! My for its restoration, but shall, in due time, be re 7 munerated by the Government.. S!guvd) " F. .11521§15.,,„ `.` A, d. SINCLAIR, SeC! NAVAL NEWS. PORTSAOUTIT, OCT. 16.----The Pearl slop-ship, of 32 guns, gives instrualions to ships bound to the Coast of Portugal. Arrived the Ant schoOner, with a small convoy from Guern'sey. Sailed the Persian sloop of war, with a fleet of transpot is for the Scheldt among them are— The William, Minerva, Guardian, Argus, Harpooner, Ainsley, Three Sisters, Alert, Dasher, Friendship, George and Mary, Messina, Good Agreement, Fame, and the Adel hia, Sailed for Deptford the Goshawk sloop of war, with about 100 vessels under convoy, including coasters among them are the following transports Batavia, Atlas, Friends, Mars, Diana, Warnsbeck, Hydra . Laviniai, and the Ann. DEAL, OC.T. I 6.—Came down from the River and sailed . to the . westward, the Hercule, Atalanta, Sportsman, and Heaor. Sailed the Furious gun-brig, with a division of transports for Flushing. Arrived_ the , Bloodhound gun-brig, with trans ports and sick troops from Flushing. FALMOUTH, OCT. 1 1.-It has blown a constant gale of wind at E. and S.S.E. for these six days past; o that there have been no arrivals or sailings. The ship .fosepli and Plicele, A. M'CowKtru., :Master, arrived at Cork on the .sth , instant, from New York ; she cleared out and sailed on the I ith ult. one day previous to the Non-Intercourse A&. No treaty, we are happy to find, had been entered into between France and America at the above date, but it was generally supposed that an amicable understanding would shortly take place. The Joseph and Phcebe left two British packets at New York,• one of -which was to sail in a few days after, by which we may expea to receive some interest ing intelligence, Mr. JACKSON'S arrival in America being daily and anxiously • looked for.—(Derry Journal.) •. _ We have heard - with great satisfaaion, that the Rev. GERARD ANDREWS, Rector of the parish of St. James, Westminster, is to succeed Dr. Powys, as Dean of Canterbury. . . The following Letter, which affords a specimen of the arrogant style of the French Generals, was lately sent by the Duke Of AUERSTADT,tO the ao vernor of Brnnn " SlR,—Not without astonishment I read in a Supplement to No. 58 of die Gazette of Briton, the calling in of all subjects absent and - fit tor war in the Lordship Of Samftitz. Had this publication been made with 4,,.sign, the author would certainly have become guilty of a crime against the French army. I will, for this time, inquire no farther into the bu siness, and use indulgence ; but to corred idle no tions, and - render uselesS all excuses that might here after be made on similar occasions,,l inform - you,' as well as all Civil Magistrates and inhabitants of the countries occupied by the French armies, that every Austrianvisions, army with men, pro one who supplies the Visions, ammunition, or arms; farther, every one who carries on a suspicious correspondence with it, or conceals arms or stores of ammunition or provi sinus belonging to it, or fails to announce it to the French FunEtionaries ; • as well as all Magistrates and Citizens who dare to publish orders issued by the Austrian Government, shall be considered as traitors to the French army, and treated accordingly." Little mindful of the progress of the negociations, or rather expe&ing they would :end in peace, the brave Tyroleans have been actively employed during the Armistice in adopting every measure that may enable them to carry on the contest alone ; ,for, to that determination they have come. Whatever fa cility for vigorous defence their country, mountain ous and rocky,'affords, they have diligently availed themselves of—they exped no external aid—they know themselves to be paced in the midst of ene mies—they consider themselves as " peaitus toto divisos or be"—they stand in the midst of Creation,. in the heart of the Continent—a solitary rock, to which Freedom has fled, as a asylum, as a last stand., Sorne opinion may be for Med of the noble ardour and resolution that.antinate them, from the accounts giten in the French Papers, which say, that 44 the Tyroleans seem to have the intention of converting the whole of their country into a fortress; for which purpose they not only fortify all the passes, but also bore holes in the rocks, and fill them with powder, that in case of an attack they may be able to hurl large masses of rock into the valhes." We have received Spanish Papers of almost every description, detailing the operations of the Patriots, from the northern shores of the Ebro to the southern base of the Pyrenian barriers. It is remarkable, that although the French have been so long in complete possession of the road from the foot of these moun tains to Madrid, they have not yet conquered the in habitants of the Pyrenees. The enemy is exposed to continual molestation from those valiant borderers, and some of the most interesting papers among these documents respe& the conflias in the vast intersec, tions and sinuosities of those wild and inhospitable regions. - Marshal VERHEUIt has been appointed to the chief command of the flotilla in the Meuse and the Sea of Zealand, in the room of Admirl Da WINTER, who commands on the Helder and in the Zuyder Zee. Last week exhibited all the prognostics of a long and [severe winter on the coast of Cornwall. The first flight of woodcocks, which usually visited it in November, are already arrived. There have been several sold in Truro market ; and in the eastern parts of Cornwall, we are informed they have be- Fume plentiful.' The easterly gale has already brought starlings, snipes, wild ducks, and widgeons : flocks of the latter have been observed on the FalMouth and Truro rivers yet the swtqlows have nut autir'elY disappe ared. • COVEAT-GARDEIV TI7EATIZE. The aspect of affairs at this Theatre last night was of so serious a nature s as to preclude all hope that the differences will be settled between the Public and the Proprietors, %without a surrender on the part of the latter. The play was J?icnard the Third. The usual tumult began much earlier than on the admission of the half-price vi,itors. The adversaries of the Proprietors were more numerous than before, and during the performance so great a degree of violence prevailed, that the cry of " Tear up the Pit !"--- " Break down the doors !" was heard in many parts. The opponents, however, did not resort to such extremities. When the half-price visitors made their appearance, the storm increased:ten-fold, and the mingled din exceeded every thing that had been previously heard, except when the horns, rattles, &c. &c. &c. animated the contest. Whent Mr. C. KEMBLE entered as Richmond, he-was re ceived with the most vehement marks of displeasure, and this displeasure was renewed with equal force whenever he appeared. A Lady in one of the Boxes, notwithstanding all this excess of popular fury, had the courage to tear one of the Placards in pieces as soon as it reached her hand. The audience evinced the highest indignation, and ed their vengeance towards her during the time she continued in the 'Theatre, but without offering any more a&ive violence. As this is so extraordinary an event; we deem it our duty to submit the .whole to such "of our readers as have no opportunity of witnessing it, and there fore subjoin most of the effusions of popular hostility ' which were held up, and circulated through the . Thbatre. In the lower Boxes two Gentlemen ar peared with letters 0. P. (Old Prices) cut in white • pasteboard, fixed on the front of their bats, and they were received with shouts of applause. On th° front of one of the side; Boxes appeared the folloyt° ing lines : " King John, of old, by sturdy Barons awki, Our British rights in Magna Chartasignid ; To stage•crown d John, in insolence and fraud, Shall our Dramatic rights be now resigii'd ? 1 6 ' From British favour has the pseudo Kiss • His tame, his.wealth, his impudence derived; By British spirit let this empty thin Of all his borrow.'d leathers be deprived." . Two Gentlethen:..in the next, box, in vihosf guardianship was a numerous party : of ladies, then pinned a placard, the following' effect, t o the front of the boxt!s; which was throwa from tbc / pit :--- " HERE LIES THE BODY . OF OLD PRICEP, (a cof6tk being ludicr-Cully deniatetj);DtE3 0C1 4 .. 1809." This was p,..ccetvedby several friends of the house , and a coalition immediately took place amongst ib t ? Bow-street Officers, in order to appr e hend the o f- fenders. A dreadful attack was made on the strong', ' hold of the'enetny, and a battle royal ensued, w hirl} lasted for several minutes, to the great terror of s e D veral fashionable pirties of females in' the neigh bouring boxes. ' The friends', - .oi the Qppos iiiclisi 4 rallied and repelled the attack with determined c 3 ' lour; but at length finding that there was sotl',, ° ! chance of being eventually forced, on surrerideir' 111 0 ! council of . war was held, and in c o mplihnec . with frequent advice of their allies in th e pit, a ietra' was reseal/ad ORS -,acid the farce , of - the •e , sl,:s WAS • most.admirably:performed by the offending parii° 4- whascrambled•down the pillars with the loss of 911° of. their coat skirts, and were received with reiterat ° ed shouts of applause by their partisans beows which was re-echoed with redoubled force throgh: out the house. On the admission of the attacking, party to the box, a burst of laughter convulsed" the) audience, in witnessing their disappointment. T l ',.-,, retreating party, in the interim, mixed in the tkrang , and were soon indistinguishable from amongst.-ob ° motley crew. ... , ,_.. The following inscriptions .appeared in, various parts : " By ruffian Jews assaulted, By Managers scorned, By thief-takers ill-treated, Yet lons- BULL will not be subdued." , " In spite of thief•taker and jew Or Magisterial power, If but to themselves the public are true. Their prices they nu.l4 lower." Thomas if. Brandon, and Another—Vcrctia for t "Kemble v, bull LOti tam." ' MINDOZ A to fight t BRAN DUN to swear; form o u IA in the nght, fle thei aore don't care. The Farce of the Farmer shared the sane fate 0 the after-pieces on aii former nigins, the ruAjority , the people beitAg the only audible pertorhiers,' a nj the termination of the piece, the attention of audience again reverted to their own 'boo,, one °` whom, - a Midshipman in ti.e Pit, addressed thew , i n the true Jack Tar Stile D—n my eyes, nay lads (said he) if you'll only stick to one- anothet like jolly dogs, and we once come within grAppling s , of that fair-weather Jack (Mr. KEMB LE), I'll be d----‘` if we don't bring hint to book. _ All I can say, 1 1 ., hearties, is, pull together , and answer for yoll' success ; and it we can't do it amongst ourselves be' low here, me, we'll have sortie of our co tta' rades from alyi (looking toteuris the gallery), a[P then see who has a right to wIA the quarter-deck: . This blunt oration was received with the alo s l marked gratification, and peals of applause resound for several minutes. But the composition which chiefly attra&ed at tention, was the following . mock play-bill, which excited thunders of applause from all parts of th ° Theatre Last Night of Performance at the New Prices. NEW THEATRE, COVENT-GARDEN, This Evening will be presented, for the last time, an ope ratic Farce, in one A ct, called IMPOSITION. Characters—Avarice, Itride, A fleCtation, Insolence, Nood le ' Doodle, 4:c. New Price, as Old Prices (With the Song of" Many a true ‘Vord spoken in test.") Between the scenes, Slight of Hand and Legerdemain Tric ks ' by the Proprietors. After which, as an Interlude, RAISING THE WIND, Otherwise Raising the Devil, or Diddler Diddled. Including ' the Bilking S'cene between .)iddlefand Sam. 0 ,. Diddler.—" You haven'l got such a thing as eigh tee pence about you, ti'ave you ?" • Sam ( lohn , Bul I), " Yes,.and 1 mean to keep it about rn. (16 you sce ' • In the course of the Interlude, Mr. K. will recite, 35 ° , 4 4 Sonnet equally suitable occasion, Wh e n it was feCt?tV